Female CN Tiefling Biohacker 3 | SP 21/21 HP 22/22 | RP 3/3 | EAC 18; KAC 17, 5 cold, electricity, fire resistance | Fort +4; Ref +5; Will +3 | Init: +8 | Perc: +10, SM: +8 | Speed 30 ft | Biohacks 4/4 | Fiendish Gloom 1/1, Applied Knowledge 1/1 | Active conditions: none
Seggas raises Bii again and feeling lucky throws an inhibitor into the shot as well. Seeing that two of the hardest hitters in the group both shot electricity damage she adds a mixture of retroviruses that pushes an organism to start producing extra electricity conducing liquids, making them easy to shock to bits.
BioBolter ‘Bii’ (Castrolance) vs EAC:1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 1 = 14 Acid Damage:1d6 ⇒ 2 If hit, vulnerability to Electricity added to green as well.
Cha'mon Cha'mon, sees that his plasma guide would be more effective than his needler pistol against the creature, so he puts his hand back on his rifle, activates its wireless telemetry, Move action to use the guided weapon property and negate the target's cover bonus. and fires.
Plasma Guide - Entangled + Get 'Em vs. Red EAC:1d20 + 4 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 4 - 2 + 1 = 11 Electricity/Fire Damage:1d8 ⇒ 5
Cha'mon's ref save ref:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16 - Still entangled but not stuck fast. You can make another ref save as a move action on your turn to get unstuck - same for Sturmvanger.
Then, turns the gun towards himself, looking down its barrel in an effort to identify flaws, as he can find no other satisfactory explanation for his poor shooting.
Cha'mon Cha'mon, re-calibrates the wireless telemetry on his plasma guide guided and fires again.
Plasma Guide - Entangled + Get 'Em vs. Green EAC:1d20 + 4 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 4 - 2 + 1 = 13Guided negates green's cover bonus.
Electricity/Fire Damage:1d8 ⇒ 8
Does Cha'mon Cha'mon, need to make reflex saves if he is outside of the 10' radius of the anemone? He failed the save in the first round, but he moved out of the anemone's 10' radius also that round. In round 2 he was out of the 10' radius, but I assumed he was still entangled. I also assumed the same thing for round 3. His attacks in round 2 and 3 might hit if not for the entangled penalty.
Sturmvanger remains hampered by the sludge surrounding his feet. He doesn't let that stop him, though and tries to crack open the mollusk with his bone blade, again.
Heavy Bone Blade plus Get 'Em minus Entangled:1d20 + 6 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 6 + 1 - 2 = 22 Piercing:2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 2) + 4 = 9
And that last volley of shots, and stabs, destroys Green
=== Combat over ===
The shell of one of the ghelarns is suitable for modifying into hardened resin armour
Phy Sci 15+:
You detect traces of signal-blocking basalt in the shells, which you determined is off-world in origin.
Fortunately, the smallest green pools were impossible for the ghelarns to enter. You can climb into them and perform Kyefi’s procedure. This requires a successful Life Science, Sleight of Hand, or relevant Profession check. You can attempt individual checks or aid another. Each success results in one sample.
Sturmvanger doesn't have much to add in this situation. As the others are working on plucking the keys, he retracts his blade and pulls out his reaction cannon, circling the group and watching the horizon for trouble.
You get two samples - more than enough. As you get them, your comm units buzz as you receive a voice call.
Kyefi’s voice suddenly breaks the silence. Err, folks... you should really be getting on your way. There’s some foul weather up in the west, and the tide is coming in faster than the original forecast showed. I suggest you leave. Right now!
Modified Chase scene. First - you need to exit the basin to get to your vehicles by succeeding at an Athletics Check to Climb. If you have a fly or climb speed you automatically succeed. If at least half of you succeed, you can help the rest ascend fast enough. Failure means the tide is one step closer to you
Female CN Tiefling Biohacker 3 | SP 21/21 HP 22/22 | RP 3/3 | EAC 18; KAC 17, 5 cold, electricity, fire resistance | Fort +4; Ref +5; Will +3 | Init: +8 | Perc: +10, SM: +8 | Speed 30 ft | Biohacks 4/4 | Fiendish Gloom 1/1, Applied Knowledge 1/1 | Active conditions: none
Athletics check:1d20 + 0 ⇒ (2) + 0 = 2
Seggas gives climbing a try, but as soon as she 2 feet off the ground just hollers psychically and out loud, <<"STURM">>
He does so that's an equal number of successes and failures. That is just enough that everyone gets up to the vehicles in one chase phase
There is a mad scramble to get up the ridge and into the vehicles. Fortunately the fliers are able to assist those in difficulty so everyone gets into their buggies quickly, along with the samples and gear.
Buggy A - Gava is driving
Buggy B - Cha'mon Chamon is driving
Who else is in which buggy? - and I am assuming there is a coral key in each buggy.
The tide is in Zone 1, You are in Zone 7.
Chase Rules as printed in the Module:
During the Pilot Actions Phase, PC drivers choose pilot actions as normal, but only the Evade, Keep Pace, and Speed Up actions are relevant in this phase. Because they’re ahead of the tide, the drivers receive a +2 circumstance bonus to their Piloting checks. The level of the PCs’ vehicle is 2. The tide doesn’t take pilot actions.
In the Chase Progress Phase, the PCs advance 1 zone as normal (assuming they succeed during the Pilot Actions Phase); after that the tide moves ahead 3 zones.
If the tide reaches the same zone as a vehicle, the vehicle is destroyed. The PCs’ armour allows them to survive with bruises and scratches, and within a few hours rescue crews dispatched by Kyefi pick them up. However, any coral keys in that vehicle are shattered.
In the Combat Phase, instead of fighting enemy vehicles, passenger PCs can take actions to help speed up their vehicle. They can use any skill as long as they come up with an idea that could be useful, such as using Computers for satellite navigation, Diplomacy to encourage the driver, or Athletics to provide counterweight to the vehicle during sharp turns. Encourage the players to be creative!
Each chase round, each passenger PC can attempt one such check. When a PC succeeds with a particular skill, that PC cannot use it again for the rest of the chase, but other PCs can attempt that skill.
If a PC succeeds this DC by 5 or more, it counts as 2 successes. PCs can assist other vehicles by donating the success of a skill check they’re about to attempt. At the GM’s discretion, expending a resource such as a relevant spell gem can also count as an automatic success.
Keep track of the number of passenger successes per vehicle during the chase. Each time the number of successes in a vehicle reaches the number of passenger PCs, the vehicle moves 1 zone ahead. For example, a vehicle with four PCs has one pilot and three passengers, so it needs only three successes to move up 1 zone.
Female CN Tiefling Biohacker 3 | SP 21/21 HP 22/22 | RP 3/3 | EAC 18; KAC 17, 5 cold, electricity, fire resistance | Fort +4; Ref +5; Will +3 | Init: +8 | Perc: +10, SM: +8 | Speed 30 ft | Biohacks 4/4 | Fiendish Gloom 1/1, Applied Knowledge 1/1 | Active conditions: none
Seggas and Sturm would be traveling together in one of the two buggies, otherwise... Anyone want someone who is liable to start replacing parts of the buggy with biomatter engineered to replace them?
As they dash before the oncoming wave, Sturmvanger keeps glancing back at it's approach. His wings spread instinctively in defense but then he realizes he can use that.
As they rush toward a depression in the ground, he actually stands up, grabbing the roll bar and jumps, spreading and flapping his wings to give it just a little lift so that it can skirt over the hole.
Morvruul rushes for a seat next to Seggas only to find the dragonkin has taken his seat.
Releasing an audible huff, he turns to get into the other vehicle, only to find that it is piloted by Chamon Chamon. The witchwyrd considers walking for a moment, but upon catching sight of the approaching wave decides he will have to learn to live with some (more!) indignation.
Not being very athletic and certainly not feeling a desire to encourage the damai driver, Morvruul resorts to backseat driving. Pulling up coordinates on his comm from satellite navigation, he begins barking orders.
Computers:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26
"Turn left!" he demands, waving one of two left arms. "Not that left!" he tries correcting with a second left arm, "This left!'
female CG stellifera enhanced envoy 7 | SP 42/42 HP 60/60 | RP 9/9 | EAC 24; KAC 25 | Fort +6; Ref +10; Will +7 (+2 vs. MA) | Init: +7 | Perc: +6 (darkvision 60 ft.), SM: +6+1d6+1 | Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft. | free Clever Feint 1/1 | 1 Reroll | Active conditions: None.
Oops... got my characters mixed up. KP vanishes back into whatever void he emerged from.
Khubelu stares at the waves for a moment, as if she wishes she could be among them, but then realizes that swimming in and being crushed by water
are two very different things.
<Cha'mon, your skill as a pilot has been a great benefit for us, and I am confident you will help us escape this predicament.>
I don't see any failures other than Kneepuncher - who should be on Vesk-6 at this time - I'm blaming any witchwarpers about - so Chamon's buggy reaches zone 8 while Gava manages to get into Zone 9. The tide advances to Zone 4.
Female CN Tiefling Biohacker 3 | SP 21/21 HP 22/22 | RP 3/3 | EAC 18; KAC 17, 5 cold, electricity, fire resistance | Fort +4; Ref +5; Will +3 | Init: +8 | Perc: +10, SM: +8 | Speed 30 ft | Biohacks 4/4 | Fiendish Gloom 1/1, Applied Knowledge 1/1 | Active conditions: none
I'm still going to roll for Round 1
Seggas starts to pull out a small ball of biomater and places it on top of the engine of the buggy. After a moment it starts to spread over the engine, taking in the design of it before it starts to build a duplicate of the device, but formed from hardened biomatter instead of metal. It then integrates into the drive system and adds some extra oomph to the buggy.
Life sciences:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
She gives a small cackle as the process seems to work, but not as well as she could have hoped for. She frowns over the newly created 'engine' and decides to give it a physical to see if there's nothing she could do to help boost his performance.
Medicine:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
"Buckle your seatbelt Morvruul or you just may find yourself swimming your way home."
Cha'mon Cha'mon, violently turns the steering wheel so that the buggy swerves to the side Morvruul is on.
"You said left didn't you."
Morvruul bangs a pair of elbows on the side of the buggy, which he begins to run with his remaining arms. He curses inaudibly at Chamom Chamom, as he begins looking for the seatbelt. Upon realizing that his seat is not equipped with one, he curses inaudibly again.
He scans the approaching wave. We are all going to die.
"Keep driving, Chamon Chamon! I have nothing, but the utmost confidence in you!" he shouts, trying to sound encouraging.
"If you allow so much as one hair on Seggas head to be harmed by your incompetence I will pluck every one of yours off your body with a pair of tweezers," Sturmvanger warns Gava.
